Social Media Team

Bet­ter­Grads has assem­bled an crack social media team, busy com­pos­ing new and inter­est­ing college-themed posts for the Col­lege 101 Blog. Each mem­ber of the team is a cur­rent or recent col­lege stu­dent brim­ming with insights to impart and social media savvy. They're plugged-in and avail­able for comment.

Eliz­a­beth Cutler

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Eliz­a­beth Cut­ler grad­u­ated from Occi­den­tal Col­lege in May 2009, where she majored in Pol­i­tics with a minor in Span­ish. While at Occi­den­tal, Eliz­a­beth served as Pres­i­dent of the col­lege chap­ter of Mor­tar Board, worked as a peer writ­ing advi­sor, and devel­oped an unhealthy love of col­lege ori­en­ta­tions after three rounds as an ori­en­ta­tion leader. She also stud­ied abroad in Val­paraíso, Chile where she com­pleted an inde­pen­dent research project on Chilean uni­ver­sity stu­dents’ polit­i­cal par­tic­i­pa­tion. Now a can­di­date for a Master’s in Gov­ern­ment at George­town Uni­ver­sity, she main­tains an inter­est in issues in higher edu­ca­tion and is very excited to be a part of the social media team for BetterGrads.

Matt Gagnon

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Matt is cur­rently a fourth-year polit­i­cal sci­ence stu­dent at UC Davis, pray­ing that the econ­omy bounces back by next June. He is a fan of pol­i­tics, sports, and pick­les. He also likes writ­ing for Bet­ter­Grads, and hopes that more peo­ple will read his posts.

Jacob Weiss

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Jacob Weiss grad­u­ated from Occi­den­tal Col­lege in 2009 with an AB in Eco­nom­ics, and a minor in Span­ish Lit­er­ary Stud­ies. He brings to Bet­ter­grads sev­eral years of expe­ri­ence in the retail indus­try, where he learned to fine-tune his cus­tomer ser­vice skills at Nord­strom, and was recently named the Cus­tomer Ser­vice All-Star at its Topanga Plaza store.

Jacob befriended Bet­ter­grads’ founder Kevin Adler when he was selected to be a Direc­tor of Occi­den­tal College’s Charles R. Blyth Fund. Dur­ing their short time together, Jacob rec­og­nized that Kevin was a capa­ble leader, with pas­sions for social entre­pre­neur­ship, pol­i­tics, and bas­ket­ball. When Jacob saw that Kevin was look­ing for vol­un­teers for a per­sonal project via a LinkedIn update, he imme­di­ately jumped at the oppor­tu­nity to help Kevin in any way that he could.

Dur­ing his years at Occi­den­tal, Jacob was a three-year mem­ber of its Ulti­mate Fris­bee team "Detox", a mem­ber of the Phi Kappa Psi Fra­ter­nity, and an avid chal­lah baker.